英语词汇“wait and see”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	wait and see
释义	> as lemmas to wait and see g. to wait and see (with indirect question or ellipsis of this): to await the course of events. Also to wait till one sees, and wait and see n. phr.In the early 20th cent. often used with allusion to Mr. H. H. Asquith's repeated reply of ‘Wait and see’ to a succession of questions in parliament. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] bidec1000 onbideOE abidelOE sustainc1350 tarry1390 await1393 to wait for1577 hearken1580 attend1589 sit1591 wait and see1719 to wait on1773 to hold one's (also the) breath1987 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > [adjective] > characterized by waiting1553 wait and see1719 expectant1803 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 311 However, we had no Remedy, but to wait and see what the Issue of Things might present. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 70 The tailor..bid them wait and see what happened. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxv. 354 Mr. Towlinson..says wait and see. 1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed viii When we have had dinner, we will do something better than have stories. Wait and see. 1905 Smart Set Oct. 11/1 You boys just wait till you see. I'll have you all jumpin' side-ways pretty soon. 1910 Blackwood's Mag. May 747/1 Mr. Asquith has deemed it not incompatible with the gravity of his office to elude the curiosity of his opponents with the absurd formula, ‘Wait and see’. 1969 S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret ii. 121 The philosophy of wait and see..was getting him nowhere. 1976 Scottish Daily Express 23 Dec. 11/2 The rest of the back row is in a similar state of ‘wait and see’. attributive.1870 L. M. Alcott Old-fashioned Girl xiv. 231 She..thought she would ‘wait and see.’.. The ‘wait-and-see’ decision was making her friend unhappy.1915 F. S. Oliver Ordeal by Battle i. vii. 82 History..shows us at every other crisis of this sort always the same triangle of forces—a War party, a Peace party, and a Wait-and-See party.1930 Daily Express 6 Sept. 4/2 Every one adopts a ‘wait and see’ policy, and business goes ‘flop’.1977 A. J. Russell Pour Hemlock xii. 147 His was a wait-and-see posture.1984 Times 8 June 20/1 An understandable wait-and-see management caution. extracted from waitv.¹ wait and see g. to wait and see (with indirect question or ellipsis of this): to await the course of events. Also to wait till one sees, and wait and see n. phr.In the early 20th cent. often used with allusion to Mr. H. H. Asquith's repeated reply of ‘Wait and see’ to a succession of questions in parliament. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] bidec1000 onbideOE abidelOE sustainc1350 tarry1390 await1393 to wait for1577 hearken1580 attend1589 sit1591 wait and see1719 to wait on1773 to hold one's (also the) breath1987 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > [adjective] > characterized by waiting1553 wait and see1719 expectant1803 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 311 However, we had no Remedy, but to wait and see what the Issue of Things might present. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 70 The tailor..bid them wait and see what happened. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxv. 354 Mr. Towlinson..says wait and see. 1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed viii When we have had dinner, we will do something better than have stories. Wait and see. 1905 Smart Set Oct. 11/1 You boys just wait till you see. I'll have you all jumpin' side-ways pretty soon. 1910 Blackwood's Mag. May 747/1 Mr. Asquith has deemed it not incompatible with the gravity of his office to elude the curiosity of his opponents with the absurd formula, ‘Wait and see’. 1969 S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret ii. 121 The philosophy of wait and see..was getting him nowhere. 1976 Scottish Daily Express 23 Dec. 11/2 The rest of the back row is in a similar state of ‘wait and see’. attributive.1870 L. M. Alcott Old-fashioned Girl xiv. 231 She..thought she would ‘wait and see.’.. The ‘wait-and-see’ decision was making her friend unhappy.1915 F. S. Oliver Ordeal by Battle i. vii. 82 History..shows us at every other crisis of this sort always the same triangle of forces—a War party, a Peace party, and a Wait-and-See party.1930 Daily Express 6 Sept. 4/2 Every one adopts a ‘wait and see’ policy, and business goes ‘flop’.1977 A. J. Russell Pour Hemlock xii. 147 His was a wait-and-see posture.1984 Times 8 June 20/1 An understandable wait-and-see management caution. extracted from waitv.¹ < as lemmas
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